Vocab APUSH Quiz #2

Mitchell Palmer-

**Attorney General; led a series of raids on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920, when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.**

Sacco and Vanzetti-

**Italian aliens and self-proclaimed anarchists who had evaded the draft. Convicted of the murders, they sat in jail for six years while supporters appealed their verdicts**

Henry Ford-  

**an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production**

Leo Frank- 

**a Jewish factory supervisor in Marietta, Georgia, who was wrongly accused of the rape and murder of a thirteen-year-old girl**

Zora Neale Hurston-

**an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937**

\n Louis Armstrong- **nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops",**

**an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of jazz. Armstrong was born and raised in New Orleans**

Marcus Garvey-

l**ed Universal Negro Improvement Association; mobilized African American workers and championed black separation**

Herbert Hoover-

**an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 and a member of the Republican Party, holding office during the onset of the Great Depression in the United States**

Calvin Coolidge-

**the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a Republican lawyer from New England who climbed up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, becoming the state's 48th governor**

\n Warren Harding-

**the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents**

Babe Ruth-

**an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935**

Charles Lindburgh-

**an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. On May 20–21, 1927, Lindbergh made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris, a distance of 3,600 miles, flying alone for 33.5 hours**